Hey Product Hunt! I'm the maker of Chickadee. I often want to listen to articles while reading them. But my browser's built-in text-to-speech sounds like a robot from the 1980s, and tools like Speechify cost more than I wanted to pay. So I built Chickadee. It runs an 82-million-parameter speech model right in your browser, on your own computer. This means you get a natural voice for free, and nothing you read is uploaded. Chickadee includes: • 12 voices and adjustable playback speed • Sentence highlighting right on the original page • Offline speech after the initial model download • No account, subscription, or API key After installing the extension, you can just open an article, press play, and listen. It works in Chrome-based browsers on computers with WebGPU support. If you're interested, try it out! https://www.usechickadee.com

Chickadee

Read articles aloud. Free, local, and open source.

Read articles aloud. Free, local, and open source.